Peggy Whitson Quotes
You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
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If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary
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You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
